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Thanks Colin and Rick.
Appreciate your comments ... and agree that a more pleasing rendition is probably part way between the two. I often see heaps of red in Carina Neb pics, but tend to see more depth/structure with paler shades of pink.
My original PI workflow:
1. Batch Pre-Processing
2. Dynamic Crop
3. ABE ... to address light gradient from 82% moon
4. MLT (5/.5/2, 3/.45/2, 2.5/.4/2, 1.5/.4/2, .5/.35/2), without masking
5. HT from STF ... with some tweaks
6. LHE to increase contrast slightly
7. SCNR to help reduce green (especially halos around bright stars)
8. CT (non-linear stretch)
9. Resampled to 50% size and rotated
Reprocessed PI workflow:
1-2-3. Re-used original output from BPP/DC/ABE
4. Gentle MLT (3/.5/2, 2/.5/2) with masking ... protecting neb details
5. AH for linear stretching (instead of using HT from STF)
6. HT (manual tweak of channel white balance and dark point clipping)
7. CT (non-linear stretch)
8. CS to crank up colour saturation (too far...matching my red wine)
9. MLT again (5/.5/2, 3/.45/2, 2.5/.4/2, 1.5/.4/2, .5/.35/2) with mask
10. Resampled to 50% size and rotated
Cheers,
Jeff
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